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Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the songs-stuck-in-your-head dept.

Lord Custos writes "From ABC News: Your Brain Waves are Better than Sleeping Pills! Everyone has a song in them...literally. And you can use it to put yourself to sleep. Canadian scientists have discovered that deep sleep can be induced in insomniacs by copying the insomniacs brainwaves, turning it into 'music', and then playing this 'audio transcription' of their own sleep brainwave pattern back to them."

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  1. Re:old? by HimalayanRoadblock · · Score: 3, Informative

    the flashing-glasses-beeping-headphones combo machines

    Those are for LUCID DREAMING. In laymans terms thats a dream in which u are aware its a dream and you take control. Go to google and search for lucid dreaming. You'll find more information than you want to know about.

  2. Re:Didjeridus by blastedtokyo · · Score: 5, Informative
    Next time read the article.

    'The participants showed dramatic improvement over placebo participants who listened to someone else's brain music instead of their own.

    "For the placebo group, the improvement was only about 15 percent as compared to 75 to 85 percent for the experimental group. So it's a highly significant statistical difference,"'

    In other words, you need to listen to your own brainwaves, not some random noise or someone else's rhythms.